When as many as eight star cricketers - Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath, Matthew Hayden, Justin Langer, Adam Gilchrist, Damien Martin, Stuart MacGill and Brad Hogg - decided to hang up their boots for Australia in a span of one and half year, rest of the world almost wrote them off.
But that didn't affect the indomitable Aussie spirit. They continued to do what they know best: handing their opponents demoralising defeats.
In the ongoing India-Australia series, they reinstated their supremacy by clinching the series with the last match proving redundant.
Even though, the last One Day International will be played at the D.Y.Patil Stadium in Mumbai on Wednesday, the Aussies have already pocketed the seven-match series 4-2.
This win was more special as eight of their first team players - Michael Clarke, Brad Haddin, Nathan Bracken, Callum Ferguson, Brett Lee, James Hopes, Tim Paine and Peter Siddle - were ruled out due to injury.
This is the sixth series in last two years they have won before a ball in the last match has been bowled.
Let's take a look at their amazing display of supremacy over the last couple of years, an era rest of the world love to believe to be their lean phase:
Text: Anant Gaundalkar
In Image: Mitchell Johnson of Australia celebrates with his teammates after taking the wicket of Gautam Gambhir of India in the first over during the sixth One Day International match between India and Australia at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on November 8, 2009 in Guwahati, India.Images: Getty and AFP
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